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91.: FRENCH NEWS [18] EXAMINER, 6 MAR., 1831, P. 155 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXII - Newspaper Writings December 1822 - July 1831 Part I [1822]

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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXII - Newspaper Writings December 1822 - July 1831 Part I, ed. Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, Introduction by Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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FRENCH NEWS [18]

EXAMINER, 6 MAR., 1831, P. 155

For the entry in Mill’s bibliography, see No. 55. The unheaded item is listed as “Article on France” and these two paragraphs are enclosed in square brackets in the Somerville College set.

the french chamber of deputies has lowered the qualification of an elector from 300 to 200 francs of direct taxes;1 which will give a constituency of about 200,000, or rather more than double the present number. The Chamber, however, has refused to give votes to advocates, physicians, attorneys, notaries, or judges, unless qualified by paying the same amount of taxes as other people.

The Centres, who were eager for a dissolution when they thought that it could take place under the pre-existing election law, have now resumed their previous attitude of hostility to it. No one can guess whether the declared intention of the Government to dissolve the Chamber will even now be persevered in; so timid and rash (no uncommon conjunction) is the King, and so truckling his Ministry. The destinies of France are in the hands of men more than nine-tenths of whom are not fit to have any part in the government of a parish.

[1 ]By Titre I, Art. 1 of Bull. 37, No. 105 (19 Apr., 1831) (see No. 72, n3).